Meet the Chester company changing the face of dating by giving dating a face #News
Victoria Hayes
14th June 2022
How do you find love in this crazy modern world? Do you spend hours scrolling through dating apps only to be disappointed by ghosts and catfish?
Well, a new Chester based company is on a mission. Secret Singles wants you to ditch the dating apps and return to the old ways of finding love.
Secret Singles is an events company launching in Chester this week (Thursday 16th June) with the sole aim of bringing singles together in a safe space, to connect, make friends and maybe more. If you’re in a relationship, I’m afraid it’s time to scroll by as you are definitely not invited. Once a month, Secret Singles will take over a bar in your town and fill it with eligible singletons. 
Secret Singles founder Vicky Evans from Tarvin, Cheshire, has been single for 8 years. She has used those 8 years of dating experience along with her events and hospitality experience to pull together like minded people and organise fabulous fun events where everyone is single, no one feels judged or lied to. She freely admits that dating in the current climate, with its reliance on technology has been difficult.
She said: “At the end of 2021, I decided to give up on dating apps after a string of unmitigated disasters. Instead I joined a group aimed at single people who liked getting out and about and socialising – basically going back to the good old days of actually meeting people face to face and building a connection from there.
“I organised a couple of events with that group as a hobby and realised that I’m actually really good at it! I also found that there are thousands of single people who wish we could go back in time to the days of giving someone the eye over a bottle of Smirnoff Ice in Brannigan’s and having a kiss to ‘Pretty Green Eyes’.”
Vicky says that she has been “catfished” three times on dates, when the person who turned up wasn’t the same as the person in the profile picture. She said: “Dating apps were great for a while but now more and more people are being catfished, ghosted and such, it’s easy to become jaded about something that should be exciting and fun.
“Secret Singles is going to bring the fun back to dating. Once a month, we will take over a local venue for the night and we will fill it with single people. Whether people go there to make new friends or to find the love of their life is up to them but we promise that they will have the time of their lives either way.
“We will also have events like wine tastings and gin tours as well as outdoor pursuits in between the singles nights. Vicky added: “Every event will be exclusive to single people so you can speak to anyone there knowing that they aren’t spoken for.” 
She says that the locations of the events are a “closely guarded secret” for now, but that tickets will be priced at £10 per person and will include a welcome drink.
The launch event this week is nearly sold out, with more information and the remaining tickets available here: – SecretSinglesUK
If you can’t make it don’t worry, there’s already a June Mingle organised for 30th June and one for July plus events specific to the LGBTQI+ community.
The “Call my Bluff” wine night also promises good fun, good wine so maybe it’s a good time to delete those apps forever.